Facebook Me, or Maybe Tweet, or How About…
Social networking is a hot topic at the moment – there are so many options to keep up with everyone you know. Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, GoodReads, Twitter…and many, many more.
At the moment, I probably use my FB profile the most, because I can catch up with a lot of people with a few clickety clicks. Twitter, I use more as a virtual water-cooler, where I can pop in on a break and have a quick chat.
But it makes me think – what did we do before social networking? How did we *gasp* ever find out anything about everyone?! Can you remember your pre-social networking days? Or is it a hazy memory?
What’s your favorite social network – any particular reason?
And, one final question – anyone out there still resisting the pull of all those networking invitations from your friends? Come on, you can tell us. We won’t then bombard you with invites 
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I’m on facebook and on twitter, but I don’t really use them all that much. It’s nice to be able to see what people are doing, but watching my live news feed on facebook makes me want to scream. I have come to hate this farmville-thingy with a passion. Loads of people clutter my newsfeed with the barns they build and the baby calves that get born on their farms (btw, isn’t a calf always… you know, a baby cow? wth?).
twitter is more this ‘oh, hm… I’m bored. let’s log on twitter for a change – thing
the only thing I do use A LOT is my livejournal (mostly for posting what I write) …. I usually follow people through their blogs /forums and so on, but to each their own I guess
As a FarmCrack addict, I apologize (even if I’m not one of your Facebook friends). You can hover your cursor over the offending post and it will give you the option to hide it. When you click on it, you’ll be given the option of either hiding the person or the application.
I heartily recommend blocking the application.
haha, thanks, I discovered that
but it doesn’t help when people send out panicky requests to pretty please help them build the barn to all those people who have farmville on ignore
I love FB, but what’s currently driving me crazy are the “Become my Fan” requests. Especially when people friend me first, rather than the other way around <- I do not see the logic. Gah!!
become my fan? you can send out a request for others to become your fan? *lol* who does that? people with low self-esteem?
how does that work?
>ohhh, I’m feeling down today… let’s see how many people will take pity on me and become a fan of me?< *shakes head and mutters to self*
Yes what did I do? I can’t even remember
It started with LOTR forums, then I hanged out at livejournal.
Then I found FB and found long lost friends, which later became twitter. Then my bookblog, and this weekend…yes a FB account for my bookblog
At least now I can keep my two worlds separated. But like I needed another platform for my love of books lol
I’m on facebook, but I never use it, because I access the internet at work and pretty much any site that’s considered interesting is restricted by the firewall.
So the way I communicate is email, sms and phonecalls
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I am such a social network junkie! I first got my facebook account when it was only open to college kids, and used it mainly as a tool to find classmates, arrange study groupds, and keep up with friends from High School that moved away. Now, I use it to keep in touch with friends all over the country.
I love Twitter too, but mainly use that as a way to follow popular authors and keep myself up to date on what is new and coming out.
I even got my mom hooked on Facebook. She first joined to keep taps on my little sister who is in High School, but then started finding all her old college and High School buddies, and has been able to rekindle friendships that she lost a long time ago.
Maybe I shouldn’t say this, but I’m not on any social networking site. I still contact people by e-mail or telephone.
I just don’t lead an interesting ennough life and people would be bored when I never updated it.
email and phone, that’s me.
and don’t count on either getting an immediate response – something my – um, the people I coordinate are learning – they’re all a younger generation and born with an electronic umbilicus. Someone texted me once, and it took me two weeks to figure out why the message icon on my phone wouldn’t go away
people tell me I have an interesting life, but honestly it’s also a very busy one. This and 2 other blogs are my electronic indulgence.
heh
I’m not as alone as I thought.
Anyone want to start a Luddites Anonymous group?
Twitter owns my soul. I need Twitter Anon, seriously.
Nope, no network sites for me. I almost caved last year when I got a facebook invite from both a cousin and a brother-in-law. Why must I have an account to look at their stuff??? grumble, grumble. But so far, I’ve resisted. Instead, I hang out on author blogs to see what’s going on in the world of books.
ME. I am doing NADA nothing. I have been thinking about facebook but then I get computer tech challenged and I quit. I am an illiterate idiot when it comes to computers and I am totally intimidated. I confess I am a (you put in a word) lol
I’m on twitter and facebook, but I hardly ever go on fb anymore. I’m a twitter girl now. It’s kinda scary, really
I have a blog I haven’t updated in a year and a MySpace that has been languishing even longer. I don’t text at all, so no Twitter for me, either. And I’m resisting Facebook like I resist fashion trends: I stick with the timeless classics until such time as the newfangled things become so common as to be unavoidable. I did the same with email and with cell phones, even.
I do surf blogs and hang on a few message boards, though. I feel like that way I’m not bombarded with small bits of info (like FB status updates and tweets) that would drive me nuts. Also, I spend enough time on boards and knitting that if I had another time suck, I’d lack the time to do things like feed myself and play with my kids.
No social networking for me.
If someone wants to contact me… there is e-mail and phone.
FB is the networking site I use most often. I have a myspace simply because some friends are on there not FB. I don’t tweet. What did I do before FB, fall out of contact with friends mainly. I did the ‘baby cow’ thing when I first joined FB, but that got old in well 1 month. But what has not gotten old is connecting to people. I use FB to keep up with authors even if I only say ‘well done’, to connect with college friends whose busy lives and mine don’t give us time to chat but I still care if they have happy (or sad) news in their lives. Now I don’t have to hear from a friend of a friend that someone I care about is going through a rough patch. Even if all I can do is send a prayer, I can keep them in my thoughts. Before FB? I relied on the grapevine (and I hate gossip), or them taking time away from dealing with their problems to call for help, prayers, support. This way I can send a quick word (a card, an email) and say “I am here, if you need me.”
I’m always on facebook and yahoo and every blue moon I check out twitter. I absolutely refuse to get a texting plan however no matter the peer pressure. I just don’t get the point, if its that important then call me…or just turn around from the desk infront of me and whisper the grand illusioned ideal that youre holding within.
I love face to face interaction, can’t get enough of it and when I get a letter in the snail mail from my penpals it makes me smile. what can I say, I’m a bit of a traditionalist!
I’m on livejournal, facebook, and twitter. I used to have a myspace, but I never used it, so I closed it down.
I used to use facebook a lot. It helped keep me in contact with family members that are a 1000 miles away or more. And it is helpful in that regard but I don’t use it anymore. I got in a hissyfit about something and yanked it. I am a twitter junkie though. I’m a huge fan of saying random crap just to make people go ???.. and I have to admit, I have found some AWESOME links to sites and video clips I would have never otherwise run across. So I find Twitter useful and fun to use in that regard.
I grew up with a huge amount of kids from school and we’re pretty much within a throwing arms distance of one another, which is nice.. but I’d say text and phone are my biggest ways of keeping in touch.
Great discussion question! I began with MySpace, added FaceBook and then made the leap to Twitter. I love Twitter for that couple of minutes when my brain is full of writing and I need a break. FaceBook still boggles me sometimes – so much clutter it feels difficult to find what I want to do, though I feel compelled to be there.
To be honest, I still like MySpace. I like the blog feature [since I'm not much of a blogger, it's just perfect!] And it seems so much easier to find someone if I want to send a message directly to them. [Or maybe it's just change that bothers me???]
As for texting? Probably not ever going to happen for me. Each year the buttons seem to get smaller and my fingers larger!
So, for now, I’ll look forward to the Twitter chatter!!
~ Melissa
I’m resisting. I did join GoodReads, but that was to collate books as I read them. I do like reading the comments from friends though
I haven’t joined Facebook, or Twitter, or MySpace. I like the anonymity too much *grin*
I must admitt that I’m one of those that doesn’t social network! Shocking, I know! But, I figure if I want to know something about someone, there’s always my cell, hehe. The only thing that comes close are sights like these where I go to check up on the latest releases and what my fave authors are up to or to talk books! Awesome! The internet does certainly open up a lot of avenues we weren’t able to utilize before!
It’s funny that you mentioned social networking! I started postgrad in public relations this January, and on the first day of my Social and Digital Media course, we had to to have Twitter accounts, be part of a ning group, have a blog, and so on…One of the big things about this course is to get people out of their comfort zones and embrace social media. I’m still working on that…
I spend waaayyy to much time in cyber world. My social networking started with myspace. I got a myspace account so that I could follow my cousins band. Then one day I saw a blinkie for a site called Cafemom. Well then I had to join a site for moms to network. After about 8 months on there I joined facebook. I have to say that I have been really choosy on fb on who my friends are. I have a few authors and then people that I personally know.
I have my book blog and my online bookstore site and twitter all connected.
The one thing that I really like is being able to connect with my fave authors in a way that I would never have been able to before.
I have no social networking sites. I do e-mail and follow the blogs of several authors that I enjoy. I feel no need to put my life out there nor do I care to read that much about others lives. As is probably obvious I am not a young person. In fact the only reason I learned to e-mail is my daughter went to college and it was the easiest way to keep in touch. Maybe if and when the rest of my family joins the sites I will too
Resist. Resist. Resist. No, I don’t Twitter, Facebook or anything else . .
I find it frustrating that some authors in Blogland just Twitter now instead of writing Blog posts – I don’t understand how you can get a good/varied discussion going on in 20 words or less . .
I always ask myself what we did before FB and the likes. I am still resisting the Facebook, Twitter or whatever other social networking site there is out there pull.
I firmly believe in keeping in touch by phone or even e-mail. It continues to work well for me.
It’s funny — I remember my parents shaking their heads over computters. They were always amazed how easily us kids picked up on them. I was the young kid on the cutting edge of technology. But I always wondered, when would I start falling behind? When would I look at young kids and shake my head and struggle to do what they managed so effortlessly.
Then came social networking. My edge crumbled when I failed to get a MySpace account when it was first introduced. Now the whole area has exploded with growth and I am left stumbling in the dust. Twitter… facebook… blogs… they all seem so time consuming. How do I prioritize? Where can I fit it all in to my schedule? I don’t even text!
I am a dinosaur. Pretty soon I will be reduced to bragging about how I don’t believe in all that newfangled nonsense. *sob*